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It's 2025 - please stop using the terms whitelisting and blacklisting. Yes, I know many of these terms were acceptable when you were growing up.
Continuing to use them today shows you're unable to adapt to change, which particularly in high-change environments like cybersecurity, is NOT a good look.
@malwarejake indeed.
"blocklist" is the recommended replacement for "blacklist"
what's the verdict on the replacement for "whitelist"? "passlist" ?
Also, what then becomes of "greylist" ?
@overunderlay @malwarejake "Greylist" only appears in one specific context I know of, spam blocking, where you could call it by the actual role it plays there. Defer-list or something.
But it's really not even a list like the others. It's almost always a default policy for things without an entry on allow or deny list. So it's rather poor naming to begin with.
@dalias @overunderlay @malwarejake Wait, so what's it's replacement?
@mwguy @overunderlay @malwarejake Actually, maybe it is a (transient) list: senders that have already been seen and already deferred once. If so, deferred-list[ed] or even waitlist[ed] probably makes sense.
@mwguy @dalias @overunderlay @malwarejake
Blacklist -> blocklist
Whitelist -> allowlist